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VSCode Flatpak lost access to fonts

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
vscode
Domain
desktop, devtools

Research direction

Start by reproducing the issue with a system-only font and compare startup behavior before and after the update. Check whether the /usr/share/fonts:ro or /run/host/fonts:ro overrides cause the freeze; done means system fonts are available in VS Code with ligatures and the app starts normally.

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Description

Happened after an update yesterday. The font was installed only in the system, not in user ~/.fonts. It has ligatures, and it is enabled in settings.json.

Before an update, system fonts were working in a Flatpak. With ligatures and everything.

Now even when I try adding an override for filesystem to /usr/share/fonts:ro or /run/host/fonts:ro, the app refuses to open because it freezes on startup.

Do you know why that could've happened?

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